Center for Community Solutions

Center for Community Solutions

"In 1913, community and business leaders founded the Federation for Charity and Philanthropy to organize and coordinate the solicitation, distribution, and use of public charitable dollars. They developed the first modern Community Chest in the U.S. and educated the public about health and social issues and programs.

"In 1917, the Federation merged with the city's Welfare Council and became The Welfare Federation of Cleveland. It continued allocating funds and providing services for member agencies, and expanded its work in community planning, research, advocacy, and community education.

"In the late 1960s, a major reorganization occurred in the way in which local services were planned, organized, and funded. The result was creation in 1972 of two new community organizations, including the Federation for Community Planning, a broadly-based, voluntary, citizen-led community planning body focusing on people and their problems.

"In 1996, the Federation changed its organizational structure and began to focus its resources on specific issues for specific periods of time; later, the organization ceased to have member agencies. These changes led to a decision to change the organization's name in 2004 to The Center for Community Solutions."

Directors
Accessed February 2008:


 * Chair: Stephen J. Ong, Vice President, Supervision & Regulation Dept., Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
 * Vice Chair: Robin Cottingham, KNB RISC Officer, KeyBank
 * Secretary: Irwin M. Feldman, Partner, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff
 * Treasurer: Michael S. Mayor, CPA
 * Executive Director & President: Gregory L. Brown
 * Tom Andrzejewski, President, The Oppidan Group, Inc
 * Eileen M. Brooks, Vice President, Human Resources, Alcoa Investment Cast & Forged Products
 * Colleen M. Cotter, The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland
 * Sari Feldman, Executive Director, Cuyahoga County Public Library
 * Thomas E. Greene, Vice President of Human Resources, Medical Mutual of Ohio
 * David K. Handal, Vice President of Information Technology, Oglebay Norton Company
 * William R. Joseph, Partner, Weston Hurd Fallon Paisley Howley
 * Cecil Lipscomb, Director of Development, Heart & Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic
 * Iris J. Meltzer, Administrative Director, Center for Adolescent Health, Akron Children's Hospital
 * Kevin Metheny, Regional Vice President of Programming, Clear Channel Radio
 * Cheryl Lynne Morrow-White, M.D., F.A.A.P., Consultant
 * Jennifer Mingus Mountcastle, Attorney, Thompson Hine LLP
 * Michael J. Peterman, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, North Pointe Realty, Inc.
 * Anne M. Pombier, Director of Corporate Development, NACCO Industries, Inc.
 * Moorman L. Scott, Jr., Executive Vice President & General Manager, The Euclid Chemical Company
 * Stephen J. Squeri, Partner, Jones Day
 * Sonja H. Thomas, Vice President, Talent and Strategic Initiatives, NorTech
 * Lou Tisler, Executive Director, Neighborhood Housing Services
 * Joan P. Villarreal, Vice President, Lorain National Bank
 * E. Harry Walker, M.D., Director, MetroHealth Center for Community Health, The MetroHealth System
 * Joseph White, Ph.D., Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies, Case Western Reserve University

Founders, 1913

 * Edgar E. Adams
 * Newton D. Baker
 * A. D. Baldwin
 * Chester C. Bolton
 * Starr Cadwallader
 * M. A. Fanning
 * Sereno Peck Fenn
 * Frederick H. Goff
 * Alexander Hadden
 * Homer H. Johnson
 * Thomas H. Johnson
 * Martin A. Marks
 * Samuel Mather
 * C. A. Nicola
 * T. C. O'Reilly
 * Henry Lindsay Sanford, M.D.
 * W. R. Warner
 * Edward Mason Williams
 * James DeLong Williamson

Board Chairs

 * Martin A. Marks, 1913-15
 * Homer H. Johnson, 1915-16
 * Alvah S. Chisholm, 1916-17
 * James R. Garfield, 1917-21
 * James D. Williamson, 1921-23
 * Fred W. Ramsey, 1923-26
 * Cleveland R. Cross, 1926-29
 * Arthur D. Baldwin, 1929-33
 * David E. Green, 1933-35
 * Hal H. Griswold, 1935-40
 * John A. Greene, 1940-42
 * Raymond T. Kelsey, 1942-43
 * Harry F. Affelder, 1943-47
 * Louis B. Seltzer, 1947-51
 * Sidney D. L. Jackson, Jr., 1951-53
 * Galen Miller, 1953-56
 * Edward H. deConingh, 1956-59
 * Harry T. Sealy, 1959-62
 * Fred M. Hauserman, 1962-64
 * Ray S. Livingstone, 1964-66
 * William D. Ginn, 1966-68
 * Robert M. Ginn, 1968-70
 * A. A. Sommer, Jr., 1970-72
 * Frederick M. Coleman, 1972-75
 * Thomas C. Westropp, 1975-76
 * Allen H. Ford, 1976-78
 * Homer D. Webb, Jr., 1978-80
 * Richard E. Streeter, 1980-82
 * R. Bruce Campbell, 1982-84
 * Ann G. Ford, 1984-86
 * Seth C. Taft, 1986-88
 * James M. Friedman, 1988-92
 * Mark K. Hauserman, 1992-95
 * JoAnn Boscia White, 1995-97
 * Carolyn Weber Fleig, 1997-99
 * Linda A. Grandstaff, 2000-01
 * Stephen D. Williger, 2002-03
 * David S. Goodman, 2004-05

Executive Directors

 * Whiting Williams, 1913-17
 * Sherman C. Kingsley, 1917-21
 * Rowland Haynes, 1922-27
 * Raymond F. Clapp, 1927-35
 * Edward D. Lynde, 1935-59
 * W. T. McCullough, 1959-72
 * Leona Bevis, 1972-79
 * William S. Gaskill, 1979-80
 * Ralph Brody, Ph.D., 1980-95
 * Eric D. Fingerhut, Interim Director, 1995-96
 * Nancy Travers, 1996-97
 * Larry D. Randall, Acting Director, 1997-98
 * John A. Begala, 1998-2004
 * Gregory L. Brown, 2004-

Contact

 * Web: http://www.communitysolutions.com